Genetic analysis has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George Washington ... and ...

Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways ... of voluminous documentation that outlines the lives of George Washington and his family, modern historians studying the African American community ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

That famous description of George Washington by his ... he enthusiastically took up the life of a Virginia planter. Washington had been renting a family farm in Northern Virginia from the widow ...

George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating ...

But after the war’s end, Washington watched with dismay as the very officers who had fought off the rule of a monarch made grabs for their own individual power. Washington was now tired and wanted ...